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Delivering food through conflict zones, minefields and floods can put humanitarian workers at mortal risk. Now, technology developed to control rovers on distant planets is being adapted to take aid workers out of some of the world’s most dangerous aid missions. Project AHEAD, a collaboration between the World Food Programme, Germany’s aerospace research centre DLR, the Red Cross and technology partners, is developing remotely operated vehicles capable of carrying supplies through areas considered too dangerous or difficult for conventional delivery trucks. Footage from a DLR test site in Germany shows a SHERP all-terrain vehicle wading into open water and climbing…
By Una Hajdari with AP Published on 14/07/2026 – 9:43 GMT+2 The space between stars just got a little sweeter. Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that is also found in raspberries and self-tanners. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in what is known as the interstellar medium — thin clouds of gas and dust scattered between stars. Sugar does more than sweeten tea and coat doughnuts. Different varieties fuel our cells and make up DNA, and scientists are eager to understand how sugars form because they are a key ingredient for life as we know it. Using two dish-shaped radio…
By Egle Markeviciute, EU Tech Loop with Euronews Published on 15/07/2026 – 11:17 GMT+2 In late April, the Commission presented a communication — “A Simpler, Clearer and Better Enforced EU Rulebook” — a concise document on how to improve the quality of the EU’s lawmaking, enhance transparency, enhance stakeholder involvement, deep clean the EU’s laws, and manage potential gold plating or even avoid transposing the EU rules on a Member State level. While the document captures some of the necessary changes to the EU’s lawmaking, the list of actions could be more ambitious and future-oriented. Especially now, when the Commission is…
Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the nation’s Red Cross representative on Monday, the president’s office said, the first publicised meeting between her and a foreign official since she was ousted in a 2021 military coup. The military deposed Suu Kyi in February 2021, jailing the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and triggering an ongoing civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people on all sides. The coup leader and former junta chief, Min Aung Hlaing, was installed as civilian president in April following highly restricted elections. Later that month, Suu Kyi, now 81, was moved…
Published on 03/08/2026 – 13:06 GMT+2•Updated 13:09 The prime minister’s office at Matignon has decided to tighten the rules. In a decree published this Sunday 2 August (source in French), Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has strengthened state control over the purchase, by foreign investors, of companies in sensitive sectors. Until now, the Ministry of the Economy had a right of scrutiny whenever a non-European investor acquired 25% or more of a French company listed on a regulated market outside the European Union. “From now on, any stake of at least 10% taken by a non-European investor in a French company…
Published on 15/07/2026 – 13:25 GMT+2 The British government announced plans for a voluntary overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds on Wednesday, in its latest effort to reduce online harm among young people. It said that features that can keep users scrolling for longer, such as videos that automatically play one after another, will also be switched off by default for older teenagers. The measures are among the final initiatives of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government and will require legislation before they take effect. The proposals are widely expected to be carried forward by his likely successor, Andy…
Images posted on social media on 3 August 2026 show the moment a drone hit a beach near the Russian Black Sea resort town of Gelendzhik on Sunday. Krasnodar Krai regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev said six people were killed, including three children, and 40 more were injured, blaming Ukraine for the attack. Ukraine’s military has not commented on the incident. Some reports suggest the drone may have been aimed at the Russian naval base in Novorossiysk, roughly 40 kilometres away.
No queues, no waiting, no staff. In Lisbon, this parapharmacy only contains the products for sale inside. There is no one to serve customers at this innovative pharma sector vendor, designed to allow pharmacists to focus on specialist duties, located in the Parque das Nações area. “More and more, we are investing in solutions that allow us to keep pharmacists and the professionals we have focused on the clinical side, and to reduce the time they spend on purely commercial tasks,” explained pharmacist Catarina Dias, who runs Pharma&Go. “It is a parapharmacy, and what we have tried to bring here…
At least 88 people died during the recent mass influx of migrants into Spain’s Ceuta enclave from Morocco, Spanish officials said on Monday, though Moroccan officials later presented a lower estimate. Most of the estimated 60,000 people who rushed into Spain’s north African territory, most by swimming, have returned to Morocco since the territory’s largest mass migrant crossing. “The latest figure that we have is 72,” the government’s delegate to Ceuta, Miguel Angel Perez Triano, told reporters, when asked about the number of fatalities. The previous toll was 67 deaths. Later on Sunday, Morocco’s interior ministry issued its own toll,…
Published on 03/08/2026 – 22:26 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump on Monday warned Iran had a “last chance” to sign a peace deal before “decapitation.” Speaking from the White House, Trump said Washington and Tehran had begun fresh negotiations despite Iran’s Foreign Ministry having earlier denied talks were taking place. “We’re talking. And we’re talking at the request of Iran, backed by Saudi Arabia, backed by UAE and backed by Qatar in particular,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “This is a last chance for them to sign a good document,” he added. Pressed for further details, the president…